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We earn our livelihood in peaceful competition with people all across the earth.
今天，我們美國人通過同世界各地人民進行和平競爭來謀求生存。
Profound and powerful forces are shaking and remaking our world, and the urgent question of our time is whether we can make change our friend and not our enemy.
各種深遠而強大的力量正在震撼和改造我們的世界，當今時代的當務之急是我們能否使變革成為我們的朋友，而不是成為我們的敵人。
This new world has already enriched the lives of millions of Americans who are able to compete and win in it.
這個新世界已經使幾百萬能夠參與競爭并且取勝的美國人過上了富裕的生活。
But when most people are working harder for less; when others cannot work at all; when the cost of health care devastates families and threatens to bankrupt many of our enterprises, great and small; when fear of crime robs law-abiding citizens of their freedom;
但是，當多數人干得越多反而掙得越少的時候，當有些人根本不可能工作的時候，當保健費用的重負使眾多家庭不堪承受、使大大小小的企業瀕臨破產的時候，當犯罪活動的恐懼使守法公民不能自由行動的時候，
and when millions of poor children cannot even imagine the lives we are calling them to lead, we have not made change our friend.
當千百萬貧窮兒童甚至不能想象我們呼喚他們過的那種生活的時候，我們就沒有使變革成為我們的朋友。
We know we have to face hard truths and take strong steps.
我們知道，我們必須面對嚴酷的事實真相，并采取強有力的步驟。
But we have not done so. Instead, we have drifted, and that drifting has eroded our resources, fractured our economy, and shaken our confidence.
但我們沒有這樣做，而是聽之任之，以致損耗了我們的資源，破壞了我們的經濟，動搖了我們的信心。
Though our challenges are fearsome, so are our strengths.
我們面臨驚人的挑戰，但我們同樣具有驚人的力量。
And Americans have ever been a restless, questing, hopeful people.
美國人歷來是不安現狀、不斷追求和充滿希望的民族。
We must bring to our task today the vision and will of those who came before us.
今天，我們必須把前人的遠見卓識和堅強意志帶到我們的任務中去。
From our revolution, the Civil War, to the Great Depression to the civil rights movement, our people have always mustered the determination to construct from these crises the pillars of our history.
從革命，內戰，大蕭條，直到民權運動，我國人民總是下定決心，從歷次危機中構筑我國歷史的支柱。
Thomas Jefferson believed that to preserve the very foundations of our nation, we would need dramatic change from time to time.
托馬斯?杰斐遜認為，為了維護我國的根基，我們需要時常進行激動人心的變革。
Well, my fellow citizens, this is our time. Let us embrace it.
美國同胞們，我們的時代就是變革的時代，讓我們擁抱這個時代吧！
Our democracy must be not only the envy of the world but the engine of our own renewal.
我們的民主制度不僅要成為舉世稱羨的目標，而且要成為舉國復興的動力。
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
美國沒有任何錯誤的東西不能被正確的東西所糾正。
And so today, we pledge an end to the era of deadlock and drift; a new season of American renewal has begun.
因此，我們今天立下誓言，要結束這個僵持停頓、放任自流的時代，一個復興美國的新時代已經開始。
To renew America, we must be bold.
我們要復興美國，就必須鼓足勇氣。
